As a mother of young children, your time is particularly valuable as you fulfil the role of caregiver, nurse, educator, chauffeur and general day-to-day organiser. As your children get older, they need your time less, but their education costs continue to increase, especially if they go on to tertiary education.

Every investor would have heard of equity and listed property referred to as ‘risk assets’. They would also have seen a graph which shows the relative risk of different asset classes, with cash at the bottom as the ‘lowest risk’ and equity at the top as ‘highest risk’.

INCREASING THE FOREIGN ASSET LIMITS FOR LIVING ANNUITY AND ENDOWMENT ACCOUNTS
We are pleased to inform you that we have increased the total allocation that clients can invest in foreign assets within Living Annuity and Endowment accounts and have improved the way we manage foreign exposure in these accounts. This is effective today, 5 April 2018.

On Tuesday evening, 5 December, Steinhoff announced the resignation of its CEO, Markus Jooste. The Steinhoff share price fell 61% on Wednesday alone. In a statement, the company said that “new information has come to light today which relates to accounting irregularities requiring further investigation.